Project Manager - Major Projects
🔍 Houston, Texas
Targa Resources is a growth-oriented provider of midstream services and is one of the largest independent midstream energy companies in North America, with assets in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Louisiana and California. Targa owns, operates, acquires, and develops a diversified portfolio of complementary midstream energy assets. We encourage your interest in joining our team and pursuing the many opportunities we have at Targa.
Targa is currently seeking a Project Manager for their Houston corporate office.
The role of the Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize multiple projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. The Project Manager will also define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Embody integrity, accountability, initiative, and respect in all correspondence and tasks performed
- Possess fundamental knowledge of midstream gas gathering and processing operations, including pig liquids handling, compression, glycol and desiccant dehydration, acid gas treating, hydrocarbon recovery, and condensate stabilization
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior Engineering management, Operations management, and stakeholders.
- Estimate and establish the project budget. Track & report on the budget on a continuous basis.
- Consult with environmental personnel and provide information that is pertinent to the facility’s environmental permits that are required
- Develop full scale project plans and associated specification documents.
- Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
- Plan, schedule, and track project timelines and milestones; Ability to identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Develop and deliver frequent project reports and presentations in effort to keep project stakeholders informed of current project status
- Oversee the development of process models to define facility design basis and heat & material balances, identify safe operating limits, define system/equipment bottlenecks, and troubleshoot/optimize operations.
- Continuously review assets to enhance safety, mechanical reliability, operational flexibility, and capacity
- Facilitate development of key plant project engineering deliverables including plot plans, PFDs, P&IDs, Controls Narratives and Cause & Effect matrices, safety plot plans, etc.
- Oversee the selection of process/mechanical equipment, including towers, separators, exchangers, heaters, pumps, compressors, turboexpanders, instrumentation, relief devices, etc.
- Lead project team to establish facility start-up & commissioning procedures, operating procedures, & supply all applicable info for PM program
- Support all commissioning efforts including initial purging & first fills, coordination of OEM pre-commissioning & commissioning, PSSR review & approvals
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
- Conduct project postmortems and create recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements. File an evaluation report on each contractor and sub-contractor working on the project.
- Develop best practices and tools for project execution on future projects
MINUM ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering from 4-year accredited university
- 5+ years of relevant experience in natural gas gathering, compression, processing, transportation, and/or fractionation
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Teams, Project, PowerPoint and Excel
- Ability to interface effectively with all levels within the company as well as organizations outside the company
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Willingness and eagerness to travel away from the home office, overnight, 20% of the time, with the understanding that occasional circumstances may necessitate additional travel (e.g. in-person hazard assessments and startup/commissioning activities).
- Possess knowledge of codes, standards, regulations and best practices applicable to the midstream industry (including API, ASME B31.3/4/8 and VIII, DOT 192/5, NFPA, etc.)
- Regular and reliable attendance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10+ years of relevant experience in natural gas gathering, compression, processing, transportation, and/or fractionation
- 5+ years of experience in project management
- Understand basic project economic and finance metrics (IRR, NPV, payback period)
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees’ beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa’s policies and applicable law. We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.